Trévoux

Trévoux
Octagonal tower of the chateau Octagonal tower of the chateau
Coat of arms of Trévoux Coat of arms
Trévoux
Location within Rhône-Alpes region Trévoux
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ain
Arrondissement	Bourg-en-Bresse
Canton	Trévoux
Intercommunality	Saône Vallée
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Marc Péchoux
Area1	5.71 km2 (2.20 sq mi)
Population (2012)2	6,714
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,000/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	01427 / 01600
Elevation	167–256 m (548–840 ft) (avg. 177 m or 581 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Trévoux is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. The inhabitants are known as Trévoltiens.

It is a suburb of Lyon, built on the steeply sloping left bank of the river Saône.

History

In AD 943, the treaty of Verdun divided up the empire of Charlemagne. The river Saône became the frontier between France and the Empire. It is thanks to this border location that Trévoux gained its particular political status.

From the 13th century, the Trévoux river toll became important, and the town built a castle and walls.

On the 30th of June 1417, the local baron issued a decree allowing the local Jewish population to continue to study the Talmud, contrary to the decision taken in Chambéry in January 1417 as a result of which Jewish books had been seized and burned.

In 1523, the French king François the 1st confiscated the Dombes region and founded a parliament for the region in Lyon.

At the end of the 17th century, two important sovereign princes, Anne-Marie Louise of Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier known as "la Grande Mademoiselle", and her successor Louis-Auguste of Bourbon, duke of Maine, raised two monuments which are still notable in the landscape - the Montpensier hospital and the Palace of the Dombes Parliament.

In 1560, the Dombes region fell to the Bourbons. The town became rich as the capital of Dombes principality and seat of its parliament from 1697 to 1771. The town is also known at this time for a dictionary, printed there from 1704 to 1771 by the Jesuits.

In 1762, the principality of the Dombes was definitively absorbed into France.

The town was a sub-prefecture of Ain until 1926.

From the end of the 19th century until the 1950s, Trévoux was the global capital of the manufacture of synthetic diamonds.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	2,656	—
1800	2,530	−4.7%
1806	2,717	+7.4%
1821	3,016	+11.0%
1831	2,556	−15.3%
1836	2,559	+0.1%
1841	2,684	+4.9%
1846	2,532	−5.7%
1851	3,071	+21.3%
1856	2,749	−10.5%
1861	2,794	+1.6%
1866	2,863	+2.5%
1872	2,655	−7.3%
1876	2,889	+8.8%
1881	2,698	−6.6%
1886	2,661	−1.4%
1891	2,687	+1.0%
1896	2,662	−0.9%
1901	2,821	+6.0%
1906	2,624	−7.0%
1911	3,072	+17.1%
1921	2,941	−4.3%
1926	3,122	+6.2%
1931	3,093	−0.9%
1936	3,004	−2.9%
1946	2,961	−1.4%
1954	3,229	+9.1%
1962	3,594	+11.3%
1968	4,231	+17.7%
1975	4,583	+8.3%
1982	4,982	+8.7%
1990	6,092	+22.3%
1999	6,392	+4.9%
2008	6,768	+5.9%
2012	6,714	−0.8%

Personalities

Trévoux was the birthplace of

• Arthur Giry (1848–1899), historian.
• François-Marie Treyve (1847–1906) writer and landscape gardener. He designed the park of the Célestins in Vichy and formed in 1881 the Établissements Treyve-Marie.

See also

• Communes of the Ain department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Official website
• La Dombes and the city of Trévoux